Re: MCCANN V AMARAL LIBEL TRIAL - UPDATES ONLY NO DISCUSSION

by **sharonl** 13.09.13 14:48

Have now received this translation of the comment posted in Diario da Noticas:

Three agencies of so-called ‘detectives’ employed by the McCanns were all fraudulent liars - just search the net for Método3, Kevin Halligen, Oakley International, and Alpha Investigations Group (Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley) and see the machinations that these individuals or firms are or were involved in. Millions of pounds have been spent - but it’s not clear on what - a report by someone with an accountancy background showed that as little as 13 % of the money raised from the public was actually spent on searching. And what results have they actually produced? ZERO, ZERO , ZERO! The bast--d Halligen defrauded the McCanns’ Fund of £500,000 and what did the McCann Team do about it? NOTHING, ZILCH, NADA from any of them. They didn’t sue him. WHY? Is it because they are afraid of what Halligen could tell the court about the real reasons he was employed and what that £500,000 was actually spent on?

by Guest 13.09.13 19:12

Maddie libel case suspended in Portugal
05:55 Sat Sep 14 2013
AAP

Libel proceedings brought by the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann against a former Portuguese detective who wrote a book about the case have been abruptly suspended.
The Lisbon court had been due to hear evidence from members of the McCann family about the effect that the book by Goncalo Amaral had on them and the search for Madeleine, who was three when she disappeared in 2007 as the family holidayed on the Algarve.
But proceedings were halted during Friday afternoon, the second day of the hearing.
"The judge had a problem. We are going to propose that the witnesses give their testimonies in written form so they do not have to return from Britain again, but it is not certain that this will be accepted by the court," a lawyer for the McCann family told AFP.
Kate McCann left the court surrounded by family members and climbed into a black car to avoid the cameras outside the building.
Inside the courtroom, she had avoided the gaze of Amaral, who led the Portuguese police investigation.
He claims he was fully entitled to write the book under Portuguese law. In it, he advances the theory that Madeleine died accidentally and that her parents were implicated in her death.
The family is seeking the equivalent of STG1 million ($A1.74 million) in damages.
David Trickey - the psychologist who has been helping the McCanns' two other children, twins Sean and Amelie, since 2007 - told the court he was concerned that they would one day be able to read Amaral's book.
The McCanns have unsuccessfully tried to ban the book. It was taken off sale but is now back on the shelves.
British police said in August they were opening their own investigation into Madeleine's disappearance. She was just a few days short of her fourth birthday when she vanished.
Her parents believe she was kidnapped and is still alive.

http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8723141/maddie-libel-case-suspended-in-portugal

by Guest 13.09.13 20:53

maebee wrote:http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2013/09/maddie-case-psychologist-and-criminal.html

Afternoon session was canceled

Only two witnesses, a psycholigist and a criminal lawyer, were heard today on the second day of the trial of the civil lawsuit that was filed by the McCann couple against former PJ inspector Gonçalo Amaral, as the afternoon session was canceled.

According to Isabel Duarte, the McCanns' lawyer, the cancellation of the audience that had been scheduled for the afternoon was due to a "personal problem" of judge Maria Emília Melo e Castro. Nevertheless, the impediment is of temporary character and does not compromise the course of the trail.

Isabel Duarte, the McCann couple's lawyer in the civil suit, over defamation, against the former PJ inspector who investigated the disappearance of the English child in the Algarve (2007), told Lusa agency that due to this unforeseen problem with the judge, the court was not able to hear the other three witnesses, all of them relatives of the British couple.

With Kate McCann and the grandmother of the missing little girl seated in the area that is destined for the public, the morning session was used to hear an English psychologist who accompanied Madeleine McCann's twin siblings after the tragic disappearance of the child from a hotel apartment in Lagos, in the Algarve.

The other witness that was heard was a criminal lawyer who helped the McCann couple in an attempt to decipher the mystery that surrounds the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who spoke about the media impact that the public statements of Gonçalo Amaral, involving the child's parents in the disappearance, had in England.

Isabel Duarte mentioned that the following sessions are scheduled for September 19, 20 and 27, then continuing on October 2 and 8, and concluding on the 5th of November.

According to the lawyer, Kate McCann will not testify during the trial, despite the fact that the new Civil Process Code already foresees that possibility, given that the process was worked upon and elaborated under another presupposition.

The same happens with Gonçalo Amaral, who will not make a statement during the trial.

Earlier, the parties failed to reach an extrajudicial agreement within the civil case, in which Madeleine McCann's parents requested compensation in the amount of 1.2 million euro over the alleged defamation by the former PJ inspector (who investigated the child's disappearance). The trial started with the questioning of three witnesses - a Canadian and two Englishmen - who are "friends" of the McCann couple.

In statements to Lusa on Thursday, Isabel Duarte said that since the beginning, the McCann couple was open to reach an extrajudicial agreement with Gonçalo Amaral, but it was not possible to reach an agreement with the arguido.

Nonetheless, she stressed that the McCann couple's main goal was that the investigation into the child's disappearance was restarted, which, according to her, has already happened, without adding any further details or leads.

In a related process, the Civil Court of Lisbon decided, in January of 2010, to keep the prohibition of the sale of the book "Maddie: The Truth of the Lie", authored by Gonçalo Amaral, and of the video with the same title, based on a documentary that was broadcast by TVI.

The ban of the book and the video, which presents Gonçalo Amaral's thesis on the involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in the disappearance of their daughter by concealing the cadaver, had been provisionally ordered on the 9th of September of 2009.

On the 19th of October of 2010, the Appellate Court of Lisbon annulled the decision of the Civil Court, after which the McCann couple appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice. In a ruling dated March 18, 2011, the Supreme Court confirmed the Appellate Court's decision.

Madeleine McCann disappeared on the 3rd of May of 2007, in an apartment in a holiday resort in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, where she was spending a vacation with her parents and her twin siblings.

At that time, Gonçalo Amaral was the coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Judiciary Police in Portimão.

Kate and Gerry McCann, who have always stated that the child was abducted, were made arguidos in September, 2007.

The investigation was archived due to a lack of evidence in July of 2008, although the Public Ministry admits reopening it if new data concerning the child's disappearance surfaces.

by **sharonl** 14.09.13 9:34

More about David Trickey, the expert child psychologist who is giving evidence on behalf of the McCanns' £1 million claim against Dr Goncalo Amaral and Portuguese TV company TVi:

From David Trickey's own website:

http://davidtrickey.com/?page_id=9

David acts as an Expert Witness or Advisor for the Courts, the Police and other organisations in relation to trauma and bereavement. He has particular expertise and extensive experience of working with children who have witnessed one parent murdering another.

David has extensive clinical experience working with children and families and since 2000 has specialised in working with traumatised and traumatically bereaved children and adolescents.

He is part of the staff team at UCL/Anna Freud Centre running the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) courses for Children and Young People.

More about the work of the Anna Freud Centre

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-children-on-the-couch-is-three-the-perfect-age-to-meet-your-sh-rink-1239461.html

Health: Children on the couch: Is three the perfect age to meet your shrink?

Wendy Wallace Tuesday 16 September 1997

Small children, some as young as three and four, are now being given daily sessions of psychoanalysis. Over the top? Certainly not, say the analysts. Wendy Wallace reports on children who talk quite naturally about all sorts of things that they wouldn't mention a few years later.

In the waiting-room of the Anna Freud Centre in Hampstead, north London, alongside the New Yorkers and Elles, are the Giant Book of Fairy Stories and Richard Scarry.

Outside, in the hardwood splendour of the hall, a woman in a bright shirt and sensible sandals is negotiating with a plump little girl on the stairs. "You can't keep hitting people," she says, as a plastic pencil case comes flying down. "It doesn't get you anywhere."

Hampstead is the therapy capital of Britain but here in Maresfield Gardens, a few doors away from the Freud Museum, it is not adults who come to talk over their worries and examine their inner selves, but small children. The Anna Freud Centre was started by Sigmund Freud's daughter during the Second World War to care for children traumatised by the Blitz. Now it offers psychological services to children and their families, and has some 50 children having long-term treatment of up to two years, half of them coming four or five times a week for psychoanalysis. The youngest patients are three years old.

The lay response to this tends to be that whether or not there's anything wrong with these children, the parents must be mad. Who in their right mind would impose the tyranny of a daily therapy session on a pre-schooler? But the centre's director, Julia Fabricius, says that tiny children make ideal candidates for full-time psychoanalysis. "I would like to see more of the under-fives," she says. "They end up coming at eight or nine. But a year when you're four is better than three years when you're nine. All sorts of things that we don't talk about later in life - sex, death, babies - a small child talks about just like that."

Julia Fabricius, herself a Freudian analyst, is attuned to the inner world of small children. In the consulting room, she has been Sellotaped to her chair (by a little girl who had "suffered a lot of losses" and didn't want her to go on holiday), regularly gets down on all fours to play complicated games of murder and marriage, and has communicated by letters and drawings with children who wouldn't speak. `You're trying to give the child a space which is safe in every way," she says. "Where all sorts of things can be expressed, and gradually be understood."

Upstairs, in the centre's consulting rooms, there are small couches. But children tend not to lie on them. They bounce on them, or pull off the cushions to construct castles or caves. There are also sinks, and lino-covered floors. Childish therapy is done in childish ways - through the media of paint and Plasticine and water. Children are allowed to make a mess in their 50-minute sessions. It's important for them to see, says a senior child therapist, Rose Edgcumbe, that mess is all right, that it can exist, then be cleared up. It sends them a message.

And their play informs the therapist. "You get clues from every little bit of behaviour that tell you what sort of child this is," says Rose Edgcumbe. "You get a sense of what worries the child and what he does about it. Up to the age of five or six, the child may instantly start playing out stories. Then the curtains start coming down."

Full psychoanalysis for children is at the pinnacle of a range of services the centre offers families who are struggling with their relationships. So far this year, 99 people have approached the support service where parents can talk over their worries with a trained child therapist, and 15 children displaying various degrees of distress are enrolled in the centre's nursery. Only a small minority of the troubled children assessed are advised to embark on full therapy.

Colin, now aged six, was one of them. He has recently finished two years of psychoanalysis, which began when he was enrolled in the centre's nursery at the age of four, and continued through his first year of primary school. His grandmother Nancy Osborn, who looks after him, believes he has benefited. "I think it helped him to believe in himself and get some self-worth," she says.

Colin's mother, Nancy's daughter, is mentally ill. His father is an alcoholic. The two struggled to care for him until he was three, then couldn't cope any more. Colin's mother had spent long periods in hospital; his father has bobbed in and out of his life.

"Colin has had a very ... His early life was very ..." his grandmother says. The words never quite materialise. She has looked after him for the past three years.

But the little boy was slow to speak, and cautious with other children. He was very, very good - except when he had violent temper tantrums. Despite being bright, he couldn't colour in a picture or write his name. "It all pointed to a lack of confidence and a bit of insecurity," says Nancy Osborn. "They consulted me and his mother, and felt maybe he could do with a bit of help."

How did she explain it to the child?

"They call her a special friend. They don't say you're going to have psychoanalysis, just that you're going each day to talk and play." Sometimes Colin didn't want to go but they stuck with it, going four days a week for two years. His grandmother is sure it was worth it. "He seems such a well-balanced, well-adjusted child, and such a nice companion," she says. "But I think if we hadn't had that help, he would have been more anxious and insecure. Quite definitely I can say that therapy has helped him." Colin is now doing well in a mainstream school.

The process of psychoanalysis with children - as with adults - involves the analyst reflecting the patient's view of the world back to them, but with more light let in. Children, like adults, can be helped to understand themselves, says Julia Fabricius. "A lot of people do not know what they're feeling. Just to be able to know it and name it is a great gain. If you can go farther and understand why you are feeling it, so much the better."

In Colin's case, the main causes of his disturbance seem fairly clear. But it is not always the case. "People tend to think that small children are happy," says Rose Edgcumbe. "They can understand that abused or neglected children may have difficulties, but they don't expect it of ordinary children in ordinary families."

There was no obvious reason why Chloe Goodman (not her real name) by the age of three didn't sleep, wouldn't feed herself and was reluctant to socialise with other children at nursery school. The nursery suggested an educational psychologist but her mother took Chloe for assessment at the Anna Freud Centre, where staff recommended full psychoanalysis. "I panicked," says Deborah Goodman. "I think because it was five days a week, I was shocked. But that's how they work with children, to build a relationship and give continuity."

Mrs Goodman didn't discuss her daughter's intensive therapy with friends. "I found that the response is that people are very scared to see that they may have a part to play in their children's development. They would rather the child was diagnosed with an illness than with an emotional difficulty."

But she took Chloe every weekday for more than a year, for sessions which she did not sit in on. "I know she did a lot of playing and drawing, and played a lot with little figures. I had a sense that she was coming out feeling very happy and relaxed."

Chloe gradually stopped coming into her parents' bed every two hours, and her eating became less erratic. By the time she started primary school, the sessions were cut down to four per week, and Chloe had made a lot of progress.

The Anna Freud Centre is one of only a handful of places in Britain where children can receive full psychoanalysis. Payment is on a sliding scale according to means; not all the parents are the rich and introverted stuff of Hampstead stereotype. Around one-third of children are from low-income families and contribute only pounds 2.50 a week. A few pay the going market rate for full-time therapy - about pounds 8,000-pounds 9,000 per year. A few children are paid for by their local health authority. Parents are usually seen once a week by a separate therapist to discuss their child's progress and their role in it.

But full-time therapy is not for any child, says Julia Fabricius. "There is a cost to the child's life," she says. "So he or she needs to be in some trouble - bullying or being bullied, with no friends, unable to separate from mother, underperforming at school. And the school has tried, the parents have tried and failed to make any difference. In a child of three, four or five, when development is galloping along, there is room for things to go rapidly wrong but also to go right. There is huge potential to do good."

ENDS

by **HiDeHo** 15.09.13 7:52

Gonçalo Amaral's lawyer, Santos de Oliveira, gave an impromptu press conference outside the courthouse

by Guest 03.10.13 11:13

Just putting this up for info on the next dates (thanks to Anne Guedes and RussianDoll...............

TRIAL INFORMATION from Anne Guedes:

October 2nd
Henrique Machado (journalist of Correio da Manhã)
Eduardo Dâmaso (political analyst)
Mrs Cameron
(Mrs Healy probably won't be heard now)

October 5th
Paulo Sargento
Moita Flores
(Two persons related to Guerra&Paz)

October 8
Inspectors Tavares de Almeida and Ricardo Paiva
Luis Nunes, the head of the Central unit against organized crime
Manuel Catarino, editorialist in the CdM (who seems specialised in juridical issues)
Journalist and writer Hernani Carvalho (who is doing a PhD on criminology)

____________________

by Guest 03.10.13 12:03

For information on 2nd October proceedings, thanks to Joana.......

Gerry McCann unable to testify for a second time

2 October 2013 | Posted by Joana Morais

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Gerry McCann arrives to court with sister Trish Cameron, September 27, 2013

Gerry McCann was unable to testify for a second time. Judge will decide until the 10th of the current month if Gerry McCann will be able to testify or not.
Trish Cameron, Gerry McCann's sister, testified.
Mrs. Healy tried to testify but was unable because Isabel Duarte, the McCanns lawyer, had already given up her as witness. Eduardo Dâmaso will testify in the afternoon.

CMTV, 2 October 2013

Video Transcript

News anchor, Andreia - Let's now go back to the trial that is taking place in Lisbon. The Civil action that opposes Gerry McCann to the inspector, to the former Judiciary Police inspector [Gonçalo Amaral]. We're watching him exiting. Magali Pinto, we were watching then Gerry McCann exiting.

Magali Pinto - Precisely Andreia, it's an hectic moment. Gerry McCann has just exited Pálacio da Justiça in Lisbon, he is now walking towards the car, and he didn't have a chance to testify today in court. In fact, everything seemed to be scheduled so he could testify today to the judge at Pálacio da Justiça. He, himself had asked to testify in this court session however the judge did not grant that request, stating she has a deadline until the 10th of October [to decide], therefore today it wasn't the moment where Gerry McCann was able to testify. During the morning session it was Gerry McCann's eldest sister who testfied and reported only about the moments when Gonçalo Amaral's book, 'the Truth of The Lie', had been published and spoke about the way Kate and Gerry reacted to that book. She said they were very upset with the fact that book defended a thesis in which Madeleine McCann was already dead and that the parents had tried to conceal her body. Indeed, the McCann couple ask for a compensation of 1,2 million euros for damages, they claim they were defamed in the book 'Maddie, A Verdade da Mentira' [The Truth of the Lie], and it is that that is in question here at Pálacio da Justiça in Lisbon. For the second time Gerry McCann came to testify, the truth is that request wasn't accepted yet by the judge. Gonçalo Amaral's defence lawyer [Vítor Santos Oliveira] reacted to Gerry McCann not being able to testify, according to him Gerry McCann's statements aren't that important to this process, a process for defamation, since the McCann couple guarantees and defends the thesis that their daughter was abducted on the 3rd of May of 2007 opposing what is in the book that states that Madeleine was already dead and that the couple concealed her body.

Other media

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«Gerry McCann's sister has given evidence in Lisbon against a former police chief accused of making allegations about the disappearance of his daughter, Madeleine.

[Previously- Gerry McCann and his sister have given evidence in Lisbon against a former police chief accused of making allegations about the disappearance of his daughter, Madeleine]

The McCanns say former detective Goncolo Amaral is hindering the search for Madeleine after publishing a book which claimed they hid their daughter's body after faking her abduction.» Sky News, Oct. 2 2013

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«Gerry McCann was present at a hearing in Lisbon's Palace of Justice
His family is suing Goncaro Amaral over book The Truth of the Lie (...) Gerry McCann is seeking to testify in the family's libel case against Goncaro Amaral, who published a book about the three-year-old's disappearance. Mr McCann and his wife Kate are seeking £1million in damages from the former detective, claiming his allegations caused them extreme anguish and hindered the search for Madeleine, who vanished from a hotel room in the Algarve in May 2007.» Daily Mail, Oct. 2 2013

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«Mrs Cameron, whose voice cracked as she described the effect Mr Amaro's book had had on her family, said: "They were vilified in this book so their distress was multiplied 100 times. (...)

"Kate was in a very low mood, she was not coping with daily things," she said.

"She was doing solitary things, almost like torturing herself, out running long, long distances by herself.

"She was going to church and praying on a daily basis, and she was sleeping for a long time too.

"She wouldn't go out socially at all, she would not go to a shop.

"We had to help with practical things like the shopping and cooking and looking after the children to help her."

She said the effects of the book were worse than when the McCanns were made arguidos, or formal suspects.

"This was a different thing. It was much more conclusive and demonising them, dehumanising them, saying they did not care for their children, that they were responsible.

"It makes it out that they weren't truthful and they have been villified and it's very hard to turn round opinion about them that has been so widely spread."

She told the court the Portuguese people had "turned against" the McCanns, adding: "Maybe people like a solution and an end to things, they were fed up with the McCanns, they wanted them to go away, but they weren't going away. They still had a missing child.

"This perhaps gave people a conclusion, but it's not the right conclusion, it's all lies."

Mrs Cameron said her brother had been jeered at in the street when he returned to Portugal in April 2009, and was advised to hire security.

He and wife Kate only started going out socialising in the last year or two, she said, but are more comfortable in people's houses "where they are not being watched or scrutinised".

And she said the effects of the family's demonisation had continued, taking its toll on twins Sean and Amelie.

Asked if the twins knew about the book and the TV programme, she said: "Last week Amelie came in from school and said some people had been talking about it.

"She said that people were talking about them at school, and that it was not all good things that had been said.

"In the past Sean has come in and said to Gerry, 'Daddy are you famous?'

"Gerry said, 'why are you asking that?', and he said because a boy at school had seen him on the television.

"Gerry continued doing what he was doing and said, 'no I'm not famous, it's because your sister is missing'.» Mirror, Oct. 2 2013

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«She told the court: "My brother and sister-in-law live in purgatory because they have no end and they are looking for the truth.

"They would like an end but there is no end because they don't know what's happened."

The McCanns say the former detective's claims in the book The Truth Of The Lie, including suggestions that they hid their daughter's body after she died in an accident and faked an abduction, damaged the hunt for Madeleine and exacerbated her family's anguish.

If successful in the legal action, brought against him, his publisher, and the makers of the documentary, the family stands to gain around £1 million in damages.(...) Kate McCann's mother Susan Healy was also due to give evidence today but it emerged that the McCanns' lawyer Isabel Duarte had dismissed all of her English-speaking witnesses other than Mrs Cameron, but forgotten the request amidst the confusion of the case.

She asked today to call Ms Healy but the request was declined by judge Maria Emilia Melo e Castro. (...) Mr Amaral, the detective who initially led the inquiry into her disappearance, was removed from the Portugese investigation in October 2007 after criticising the British police.

He has also applied to give evidence at the trial and is awaiting a decision. » Independent, Oct. 2 2013

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2013/10/gerry-mccann-unable-to-testify-for.html

by Guest 03.10.13 16:51

Thanks to RD and AG..............

schedule post - 8th October

November 19
Marinho Pinto (bar association president)
Carlos Coelho da Silva (the documentary film maker)
Margarida Teotónio Pereira (TVI director of international programs)
possibly a witness for the accusation (?), José Viega Soares, a consultant in PR who was at the court on day 1

November 27
The last session (exhibition of the documentary and final allegations)

by Guest 08.10.13 17:12

Witnesses for Mr Amaral............

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 59m
Kate #McCann asks judge for permission to give evidence at libel trial

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 57m
Former Portuguese police family liaison officer Ricardo Paiva tells #McCann libel trial Amaral's book was `based on our investigation'

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 56m
Paiva: the book `contains the professional and personal opinions of Goncalo Amaral as a police officer' #McCann

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 55m
Contrary to #McCann claim Paiva says publication of Amaral's book did not hinder the `flow of information' coming in to police

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 55m
Paiva says everything in Amaral's book `can be found in the case files' which have been made public #McCann

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 52m
Port police organised crime unit head Luis Neves said Amaral's conclusion Madeleine was dead was accepted early on by parents #McCann

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 50m
Neves: Kate driving force behind failed July 2007 search by controversial ex-Sth African cop Danie Krugel with body-finding machine #McCann

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 42m
Neves: Brit police suggested bringing in sniffer dogs..`not accepted lightly' due to `cost' and `no experience of it in Portugal' #McCann

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 40m
Retired cop Francisco Moita Flores said #McCann probe was one of `most complex and well-investigated cases' he'd seen..Amaral `competent'

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 40m
Flores: #McCann and Tapas 7 friends should have had their phones tapped because of `inconsistencies' in their statements.

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 36m
Flores says `prophetic and dogmatic vision' behind current SY #McCann probe. UK cops `only putting forward the hypothesis of abduction'

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 34m
Judge stops lawyers on both sides asking Amaral's former cop colleagues their conclusions on #McCann case because `opinions' not `facts'

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 28m
Judge to Paiva: `What's new in the book that's not in the police files?' Paiva: `Nothing' #McCann

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 28m
judge says book cover says it contains `exclusive revelations'..`ok so then I have to conclude this is misleading advertising', #McCann

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 28m
judge says book cover says it contains `exclusive revelations'..`ok so then I have to conclude this is misleading advertising', #McCann

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 9m
#McCann libel hearing adjourned until Nov 5. If allowed Madeleine's parents & Amaral expected to speak on same day on or after Nov 27

by Guest 08.10.13 18:37

loopzdaloop wrote:
Sceptic wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449861/Kate-McCann-mother-Madeleine-tells-libel-hearing-wants-defend-court-smears-Portuguese-police-over.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Oh dear oh dear - for the Mccann's,
Wait til Carter Ruck See that! The first balanced news article for a long time!!

Kate McCann tells libel hearing she wants to defend herself in court against ‘smears’ made against her by Portuguese police

Kate McCann has requested permission to defend herself in libel case

Gerry McCann has also expressed a wish to speak during trial

Family is suing Goncaro Amaral over book The Truth of the Lie

Police chief claimed the McCanns hid Madeleine's body after she died in an accident then faked her abduction

By Gerard Couzens
PUBLISHED:17:12, 8 October 2013| UPDATED:17:12, 8 October 2013

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The tormented mother of Madeleine McCann has said she wants to defend herself in open court for the first time against Portuguese police 'smears' over her daughter's disappearance.

Kate McCann has asked a judge for permission to address a libel trial brought after a controversial book suggested the McCanns may have hidden their daughter's body and staged an abduction.

The author of The Truth Of The Lie is ex-police chief Goncalo Amaral, 56, who was tasked with investigating Madeleine's May 2007 disappearance.

Kate McCann attended the opening day of the trial but has since stayed away, leaving it to friends and family to represent her, until Mr Armal began his defense

Hearing: Gerry McCann has also expressed a wish to testify against police chief Goncaro Amaral
Kate's husband Gerry and Mr Amaral have already applied to speak in the Portuguese court.

Her application, revealed at the libel trial today as former police colleagues of Mr Amaral spoke in his defence, paves the way for an emotional finale to the case.

It comes just days ahead of a new appeal by the McCanns for information on their missing daughter on BBC's Crimewatch which will feature a reconstruction of events in Praia da Luz on May 3 2007.

It is thought Gerry and Kate, 45, will appeal directly to a kidnapper during the programme.

Madeleine's mother flew to Portugal for the start of the libel trial last month - but had left it to friends and relatives to testify before Mr Amaral's side launched its defence.

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Judge Maria Emilia Melo e Castro, referring to Kate by her maiden name as she revealed her change of heart, said: 'On October 2 Kate Healy made an application to make a statement to this court.

'The court will decide on this application once evidence has been heard by both sides as only then will it be it able to judge on the need for and the pertinence of this application.'

If given the go-ahead, the McCanns and Mr Amaral are expected to speak on the same day on or after November 27 when the last hearing in the trial at Lisbon's Palace of Justice is scheduled.

Former colleagues of Mr Amaral's turned up the heat on the McCanns today by insisting nothing he wrote in his July 2008 book was new.

The book was published just three days after the McCanns had their status as suspects over Madeleine's disappearance officially lifted.

Around 120,000 copies were sold before it was withdrawn when the McCanns won an injunction against the ex-police chief.

Proceedings: Mr McCann in the court building, where the case against Mr Amaral is being heard

Anger: Mr McCann claims the allegations made it harder to search for his daughter, who vanished in 2007
Portuguese TV station TVI, also being sued by the McCanns along with Mr Amaral's book publishers, broadcast a controversial documentary based on the book in April 2009.

Former family liaison officer Ricardo Paiva told the court: 'What is in the book is based on our investigation and contains the professional and personal opinions of Goncalo Amaral as a police officer.

'Everything that is there can be found in the case files.'

Contradicting earlier claims by the McCanns' family and friends that Mr Amaral's book had hindered their search for their daughter by turning the Portuguese public against them, he added: 'The flow of information continued to come in regularly.

'Neither this book or any other book affected the flow of information.'

Luis Neves, head of a national police unit tasked with investigating organised crime, including kidnappings, said Mr Amaral's conclusion Madeleine was dead was an idea accepted early on by her parents.

He insisted Kate was the driving force behind a failed July 2007 search for Madeleine by controversial ex-south African detective Danie Krugel, who claimed to have invented a machine which could locate a body if provided with a DNA sample.

Neves said the reservations he felt over Mr Krugel were shared by colleagues about sniffer dogs supplied by British police which went on to smell the 'scent of death' in the McCanns' holiday apartment and place a huge question mark over the hypothesis Madeleine was kidnapped.

The performance of the dogs was later called into question after they also reacted to remains at Haut de la Garenne orphanage in Jersey, which were later found to be animal bones.

Battle: Mr McCann and his family are still looking for Madeleine, who was aged three when she disappeared

Mr Neves told the court: 'The McCanns convinced us we should bring in the south African man with his equipment.

'We didn't want to place any obstacles in the way and so the investigating officers eventually allowed it.

'It was during this part of the investigation our British colleagues said there was a team made up of dogs and their handlers that could help us to find out where the child could be buried.

'It was from then on that the Algarve police division decided to allow the dogs to come and the idea of Madeleine's death began to form and things took another direction.

'I know the suggestion of the dogs was not accepted lightly.

'We had no experience of it in Portugal and the cost was another factor.'

Retired police officer Francisco Moita Flores, now a TV commentator, described the Madeleine McCann investigation as one of the 'most complex and well-investigated cases' he had had ever seen and called Mr Amaral 'competent.'

He insisted the Tapas Nine - the McCanns and the friends dining with them at a tapas bar near their apartment the night Madeleine disappeared - should have had their phones tapped because of 'inconsistencies' in their statements.

Attacking the ongoing Home Office-funded Met Police investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, called Operation Grange, he told the court: 'There's a prophetic and dogmatic vision behind it.

'These detectives are only putting forward the hypothesis of abduction.'

Judge Maria Emilio Melo e Castro stopped lawyers on both sides asking Mr Amaral's former police colleagues what they thought about his conclusions on Madeleine and her parents in his book because they were 'opinions' and not 'facts.'

Victim: Madeleine's disappearance sparked a worldwide police search, but she has not yet been found

Couple: Gerry and Kate McCann say they were extremely distressed by Mr Amaral's book, published in 2008

She waved the book in her hand as she demanded to know from Ricardo Paiva: 'The back cover says it contains exclusive revelations.

'What's new in the book that's not in the police files?'

Told by Mr Paiva, 'Nothing', she replied: 'Ok, so then I have to conclude this is misleading advertising.'

Another defence witness, Mr Amaral's ex-number two Vitor Tavares de Almeida, was bizarrely dismissed after being asked just one question.

The police chief, still a serving officer despite being convicted in January of torturing a crime suspect and receiving a two and a half suspended jail sentence, has previously claimed he believes the McCanns concealed Madeleine's body.

He was overheard on a video link muttering: 'What am I doing here?' before being sent away after admitting he had only read the final two pages of Mr Amaral's book.

Mr Amaral denies defamation. The case continues.

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Have copy/pasted it before Carter Ruck tries to get it whooshed.

That contains some very unhelpful relevations that have not been printed in the UK media for a very long time!!

I'm really happy after reading that!

Not only does it mention DOGS, but it mentions INCONSISTENCIES of statements and also highlights the Mccann's interests in the occult detectives with the magic detecting machine of death!